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OLD SERIES, NO. 35 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 50 LOCAL MATTERS: -------------- The schooner ANN MARIA, late of Ludington, now owned in Milwaukee, has been sent here to receive new masts and be put in shape for the summer. The following vessels cleared at the custom office this week: Monday, schooners CLIPPER CITY, MYSTIC, AHNAPEE, CLARA, MELITTA, and R. C. CRAWFORD. On Tuesday, schooners CONNEAUT, A. C. KEATING and Propeller LAWRENCE. The steamer TRUESDELL, lately purchased by Thos. R. Lyon, arrived last Tuesday, under command of Capt. Courtland. A large force of men were set to work yesterday to take off the upper works, and convert her into a steam barge for towing the scows. NEWS OF THE WEEK: MICHIGAN -------------------------- A fishing party from Mt. Clemens, consisting of Postmaster Snook, Dr. W. Decker, Morris Axtil and Charles Wood, was drowned in Lake St. Clair Wednesday while returning from Strawberry Island, where they had been on a fishing excursion. The loss causes great mourning at Mt. Clemens. A dispatch from Mt. Clemens says: Capt. Duncan of the tug PERKINS has just returned, having found the lost boat and the body of Morey Axtil, one of the drowned party heretofore mentioned. The boat was discovered floating off Grosse Point, with the body of young Axtil partly in the boat, the head, shoulders and one arm lying over the gunwale, in the water. This dissipates the last hope for the safety of any of the missing men. The city is in mourning. Axtell is supposed to have died from hunger and exposure. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, May 19, 1881 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 37 VOL. I NEW SERIES, NO. 52 LOCAL MATTERS: -------------- Schooner ECLIPSE was taken off the beach last Friday, and towed to the ship-yard for repairs. The steamer CORONA damaged her rudder yesterday, and was detained several hours in consequence. The various contracts for repairing and improving the harbors along this shore will be let on the first of June. Lyon's lumber scow, the KELLOGG, arrived yesterday afternoon, off her first trip. The run to Chicago was accomplished in thirty-one hours, and the return trip in twenty-one. The second scow will be launched on Monday next, if possible. C. E. Mitchell left here last Tuesday morning for Saugatuck, where he has been appointed as C. S. harbor inspector. Mr. Mitchell is worthy of the trust thus placed in him, and is well qualified to fill the office. Uncle Sam and Saugatuck will be well served. Auditor General Latimer and Attorney General Van Riper, who have been to Washington to arrange the transfer of the St. Mary's canal from the state to the general government, have returned, and report that the government will take charge of the canal at once. John Weitz, the sailor who has been lying at the Hanson House for the past two weeks, died early yesterday morning after suffering amputation of the left limb the day previous. Mrs. Weit has been with him but a few days. M. Holmquist will take the remains to Chicago for burial. Reports from St. Ignace, Mich., state that on May 10th the schooner GOLDEN FLEECE went ashore at St. Helena Reefs, and was released on Thursday by the tug SAUGATUCK, after throwing over some 1,500 bushels of flax seed. While the SAUGATUCK was towing her into old Mackinaw, she collided with the schooner McVEA, carrying away her jibboon and bowsprit. NEWS OF THE WEEK - Michigan --------------------------- The life saving crew of Thunder Bay Island measured the icebergs in front of their station Wednesday, May 5th. They measured from the bottom up fifty feet, being aground in six and a half fathoms of water. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE LUDINGTON RECORD, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, May 26, 1881 VOL. XIV. OLD SERIES, NO. 38 VOL. II NEW SERIES, NO. 1 LOCAL MATTERS: -------------- Steam barge Truesdell and consort A. G. KELLOGG, arrived her yesterdy morning. The California Circus company chartered the DAISY DAY to carry its balloon (?) to Manistee. Captain L. H. Sterling is now sailing the COLIN CAMPBELL. Captain John Cochran is sick. The scow SUPPLY, bound for Pine Lake from Milwaukee, was obliged to make this port on Sunday, to procure medical aid for the captain, who was suffering from typhoid fever. Dr. E. N. Dundass was called. The MAGNET will run, until further notice, on the following time, between this city and Pentwater: Leaves Ludington 8:30 a.m., and 4:30 p.m.; leaves Pentwater 1:30 p.m., and 10 p.m. The MAGNET is the favorite on this shore with the traveling public, and is well mastered. On May 24th, a terrible calamity occurred near the city of London, Ontario, with an estimated loss of 175 lives. About 6 o'clock in the evening, the steamer VICTORIA, with over 600 excursionists on board, on her return trip from Springbank, suddenly "collapsed," and became a total wreck on a level with the water's edge. The first intimation of the catastrophe was the arrival in the city of a few of the survivors, wet and weary. At latest accounts about 150 bodies have been recovered, and the scene on the river bank is described as heartrending. The accident was due to gross careless- ness; the boat being over-crowded to a disgraceful extent. The new iron sidewheel steamer, CITY OF MILWAUKEE, built for the Goodrich company, to run on the line between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, has been fully completed, and left Detroit May 25th for Milwaukee, carrying a large excursion party. The vessel was built by the Detroit Dry-Dock Co., and is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 240 feet; length between perpendiculars, 230 feet; beam, 33 feet; diameter of cylinder, 54 inches; length of stroke, 12 feet. The boat is built in three water-tight compart- ments, making her absolutely safe from any accident resulting from colli- sions. The upper works are of the finest description, and everything pro- vided for the comfort and safety of passengers. Two other boats now building, will be placed on the same route this summer. The fine schooner-yacht VIKING, now on the way to Chicago from the Atlantic, is the property of Colonel John Mason Loomis. The price paid for her was $9,000. The VIKING was a member of the New York Yacht club. She is a handsome craft of about 100 feet keel, and measures 154 tons burthen. Her depth of hold is eight and one-half feet, and she carries a centerboard. She is finished and furnished luxuriantly, and has still two years to run in the A 2 class. The VIKING has a good record, having won two of the New York Yacht club races. She has also crossed the Atlantic twice during her career on salt water - (Inter Ocean) NEWS OF THE WEEK: - Michigan ---------------------------- A government engineer is surveying the harbor and river at and below Au Sable and Oscoda, and making estimates for improvements. Sixteen roughs got on board the G. L. MASON, in Saginaw river, Sunday, for the purpose of "cleaning out" her crew, but they were speedily whipped and put ashore. As this is a crime of a serious nature, under the United States laws, they should be made an example of. ===========================================================================